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It looks as though many more of us visited Sweden last year than the year before and mostly that is due to the impact of Stieg Larsson’s crime novels.
On Location’s Alan Locher on Amsterdam, China and Boston’s best kept secrets
Last week we told you how airlines et al had been ticked off for the silly surcharges that they imposed on people paying by credit card.
The CD-Traveller team share their top 2011 travel experiences and look at the top spots for 2012
To all our readers near and far, a very Happy New Year. Thank you for your fantastic support in 2011.
Ever read any of those tips for “hot” holiday destinations for 2012? Do you follow them? Do you believe them?
I have been ploughing through some of the tips from some of the more well-known publications and companies and the thing that I find interesting is that they hardly agree with each other.
CD-Traveller came a long way in 2011. All due to you. If you don’t read what we write, it becomes just an ego trip (and that was suggested in the early days!) so it’s important to know what you want to read.
A Welsh village is hoping to woo cash rich Chinese tourists by building a £50 million purpose built holiday resort, where signs will be in Mandarin and staff will be familiar with Chinese customs.
Allan Pickett – head chef at recently revamped Canary Wharf restaurant, Plateau – shares four fabuously festive recipes that are perfect for entertaining this New Year’s Eve, with CD-Traveller readers
No, not on clothes or beds or sofas. I’m talking about the holiday sales. At the moment airlines, hotels, travel agents and tour operators have them in abundance. But will they make us book?
Now that the chocolates, pudding and mince pies have been eaten, it’s time to get back to work. Or is it?!
Allan Pickett – head chef at recently revamped Canary Wharf restaurant, Plateau – shares four fabuously festive recipes that are perfect for entertaining this New Year’s Eve, with CD-Traveller readers
As a country Spain conjures up images of sun, sangria and siestas. But there Spain is looking to become known for a fourth S – skiing.
Now Christmas is over, do you have an armful of brochures, spend hours in travel agents or watch endless TV ads? According to Conrad Advertising 50% of people who had booked a holiday last year looked at TripAdvisor as part of their research.
Lyn gives us the low-down on inspirational Italian rehab clinic , San Patrignano
Who thinks of Boxing day as an important tourism day? To many, today’s activities are linked to shopping, sport or recovery from the quantities eaten and drunk the day before.
Cruise veteran, Viv, reveals why cruise ships are sometime forced to change their itinerary
Bethlehem may be a huge religious tourism destination this weekend but during 2010 the number of people visiting destinations at home has grown because of the sheer number of churches, cathedrals, abbeys and sites we have.
Special, gumdrop-enhanced avionics installed in Rudolph’s red nose will make it 10 times brighter, allowing the elves to track Santa One even during the type of heavy snowfall expected this Christmas.
ABTA has suggested that watch we watch on TV or at the cinemas will have an effect on where we might go on holiday.
It would seem that everyday someone somewhere is opening a coffee shop. Forget the fact that the UK is traditionally renowned for tea drinkers. Now in every shopping centre and on every high street, a coffee chain store is lurking.
By the end of next year the government intends banning excessive/hidden fees charged by airlines (indeed by any company) where payment is made by credit or debit cards. On the face of it this is good news. Look deeper and it might be so great.
Why my scepticism?
Yesterday we reported how a record number of Brits are spending Christmas overseas despite the economic woes.
On Wednesday, the European Court of Justice decided that all airlines flying in and out of the EU would have to pay for carbon emissions from January 1st next year. Make a wild guess who’ll end up paying?
What are we to make of the decision announced this morning that IAG (the owner of BA and Iberia) has agreed terms with Lufthansa to buy bmi for £172.5 million?
Yet again the time approaches when rail fares rise again. We moan, we complain, the media highlight how much annual season ticket costs but rarely do we consider the effects on tourism.
We may be living in the worst economic crisis since the 1920s but that hasn’t stopped 4.25 million Brits from packing their bags and heading overseas this Christmas, with the peak travel days predicted to be today and tomorrow (Dec 22 and 23).
The number of people who move to France and embrace the French way of life, the countryside or cities as well the people can be counted in hundreds of thousands. As we draw towards the end of France Week, here is news of just one, Kate Rodde.
Package holidays to Vietnam, one of the fastest growing holiday destinations, may become a reality in the next few years now that Vietnam Airlines is launching a direct service from Gatwick to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
The phrase above is the slogan that Visit Britain us using as part of its advertising campaign to encourage Americans to come and see us. The slogan thought up by Californian, Jay Masunaga, in a competition designed to publicise Britain as a holiday destination for the gay community.
To complement the promotion, Visit Britain has also come up with categories of people to whom Britain would appeal. These are Foodies, Night Owls, Event-Goers, Culturati, Chillers and Fashionistas. You can guess what most of these are but how about Chillers
Last summer we mentioned some research that showed up to 10% of people went on holiday leaving their children behind. Was this the beginning of a trend? What were parents doing with the children while they were on holiday? At that time we wondered whether the survey results were an oddity. It seems not.
In India, the trend has also been spotted and The Times of India highlighted the fact that children were left with grandparents whilst the parents went away they had almost if not more than a break than their parents did. Some people planned two holidays a year, one with the kids and one without saying that the holidays without the kids were needed so that they get sufficiently relaxed.
As I was talking to some people from Amtrak, the American railway company, a week or so ago, I was left thinking about the names of rail journeys. They still have the Coast Starlight which runs from Seattle to Los Angeles conjuring up a rather romantic moonlight journey and services like the Texas Eagle, Pacific Surfliner and The Silver Meteor. The 20th Century Ltd doesn’t run any more apart from in re-runs of Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and the Orient Express ended just running from Strasbourg to Vienna till that ended last December. In Australia, the Indian-Pacific does exactly what it’s name suggests, linking two oceans and the Trans-Siberian also does just what it says..
What do we have?
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